wareroom en · NOUN
Etymology
From ware + room.
Meanings
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A room used for storing or displaying goods or wares.
On the ground floor of a dim house in a dim street, which by the contrivance of its occupants had been converted from its original role of dark and sinister dining-room to wareroom for a dozen or more perambulators on high, rubber-tired wheels, Alphonse Michelson and Gertie Dobriner stood in conference with a dark-wrappered figure, her blue-checked apron wound muff fashion about her hands.
1916, Fannie Hurst, Every Soul Hath Its Song:He made friends with a young apprentice who took him sometimes to a piano wareroom in the city, where he was allowed to play his little tunes on a fine piano.
1922, Harriette Brower, The World's Great Men of Music:But the curse of a most fluent pen, and of a numerous auditory, to whom his words were oracles, was upon him; and seventy volumes, more or less, which Cotta issued from his wareroom, are for the library of the Germans now, and for the selection of judicious editors hereafter.
1844, Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI.:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| warerooms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |